At the moment, the mountainous territories of the Russian Federation, whose area occupies a significant part of the country, are not endowed with a special status in terms of institutional understanding of their specific features and conditions for socio-economic development. The conflict lies in the fact that, on the one hand, mountainous areas are part of a subject that has all the regulatory and legal powers regarding the formation of a strategic development plan, and on the other hand, the lack of a normatively fixed interpretation of the features of mountainous areas does not allow special conditions for the formation of special indicators their development. In this regard, the development of the author’s vision for the definition of “sustainable development” of mountain territories is a necessary condition for further improvement of the process of strategic management at the regional level.

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